Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27248965-20170413045426

In preparation of future PBB updates, major improvement works for the PBB Wikia are in progress. Other than the new guidelines, you may have noticed that both the navigation bar and the homepage have been overhauled as well. Some of you may also know that we have been working on new templates to show information in articles with a better way. The following are what we have done, and what we plan on completing soon:

Phase 1: Update of Guidelines + File Name Rationalization (Completed) Remember that the guidelines were updated and Pokémon sprites, as well as some bag sprites for items, had their file names rationalized earlier? These actions form the very first phase of this large-scale improvement works. We recruited more staff to enforce the rules as well.

Phase 2: Navigation Bar Revamp (Completed) We reorganized the tabs and added some drop-down menus to make the articles, category pages and guidelines more accessible. This was done a couple of weeks ago and we were grateful to see that majority of the users here supported the updated navigation bar. We sincerely thank you for your support.

Phase 3: Homepage Overhaul (In progress) We are redoing the codes in our homepage to give it a simpler design. We will also add the "Featured Categories" later on to make the important categories and articles more accessible. We hope you like the new design!

Phase 4: New Templates for Wild Pokémon, Battles and more! (In progress) To display the information in a more standardized manner, we have been working on many series of new templates. Sub-templates of Template:Wild Encounters, Template:Set Encounters and Template:Trainer Battles are going to be implemented today into all location articles. They are inspired by similar templates on Bulbapedia, but with their appearances suiting our Wikia more. Meanwhile, we also have Template:Requirement and Template:EV to implement today.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the above improvements, please reply here or on the PBB Wikia Discord. We will also notify you here if we have any other plans being discussed or implemented. 